Can our cities be locally productive and globally connected? Smart, resilient and infused with poetry and empathy? Is an innovating and inclusive city possible?
Featuring community leaders in various fields — food, technology, politics, architecture and more — Night of Ideas is a seven hour event bringing together diverse experts and the public to hypothesize what it’ll take to get to an ideal urban future.
Not just San Francisco-centered, Night of Ideas is taking place in five other cities as well, each reimagining not just how their respected cities will, and can evolve, but all cities. Night of Ideas will culminate at the San Francisco event: Saturday, February 2, 7pm to 2am.
Hosted at the San Francisco Public Library — and inspired by their Public Knowledge and After Tomorrow program — with the French Consulate and SFMOMA, the night will be anything but a snooze; programming and panels will feature not only those adept in their fields, but performances, food, drinks, music, art and yoga!
The Civic Center Initiative will moderate a panel at 9pm on February 2, focused on the concept of the “Welcoming City” – panelists will discuss how inclusive public spaces can serve as a model for creating a more holistically welcoming city.
Help envision the city of the future and sign up for free tickets on the Night of Ideas Eventbrite page!
Top image: © Elizabeth Leitzell (Courtesy of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Brooklyn Public Library)
